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Introducing the Inclusive Speaking Model
Think back on any situation where you were attending a presentation, weren’t paying full attention to what was being said, and suddenly missed out on that funny speaker’s joke or pun. Remember how you felt, seeing everyone around you bursting out laughing, while you were wondering what was said that was so funny? How you may even have pretended to chuckle, just a little, in order not to appear out of the loop? It felt a little awkward, right? Frustrating maybe, even?
To a lot of people who attend speaker sessions, these feelings of awkwardness and frustration are not just one-offs. To them, FOMO (the fear of missing out, or maybe more accurately in their case, the frustration of missing out) is a constant. It’s the default experience. Not something they run into when stepping away from their Facebook or Instagram timelines for a few hours, but something that occurs to them regularly, in the real world.
“What if I don’t understand what they meant by that? What if I can’t hear what it is that they said? What if I can’t see what it is that they referred to? What if I can’t find the focus to concentrate on that text? What if I can’t distinguish the colours in that document? What if I”… That list goes on and on.
The rejection and sense of failure felt by those people while attending our sessions and consuming our content is very…
